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- adjective religion Taking place between religious organisations that have different
systems of formulatedtheology (confessions offaith )
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Examples
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Although a Protestant organization, the YMCA was interconfessional, not confined to any one denomination.
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Prophet 'he Osterized all these into a warm, smooth, interconfessional soup that was perfect for twentieth-century readers, many of whom longed for the comforts of religion but did not wish to pledge allegiance to any church, let alone to any deity who might have left a record of how he wanted them to behave.
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In 1905, the WSCF became an interconfessional movement in which all Christian faiths received equal status within the organization.
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When the drafts of the new laws concerning marriage, the schools, and the interconfessional relations, in respect to which points there were many gaps in the Concordat, came up for discussion in the House of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The interconfessional divisions of the body ecclesiastic were about to prove themselves a more effectual bar to union than the political and territorial divisions of the body politic.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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The commonwealth was founded in good faith on principles of mutual good will with the Indians and tender regard for Indian rights, of religious liberty and interconfessional amity, and of a permanent peace policy.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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The interconfessional divisions of the body ecclesiastic were about to prove themselves a more effectual bar to union than the political and territorial divisions of the body politic.
A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868
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It is in large part the eager appetency for some manifestation of interconfessional fellowship that has hastened the acceptance of such organizations as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young
A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868
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The commonwealth was founded in good faith on principles of mutual good will with the Indians and tender regard for Indian rights, of religious liberty and interconfessional amity, and of a permanent peace policy.
A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868
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If Jewish and Palestinian citizens have been kept apart so effectively -- and a separate education system and severe limits on interconfessional marriage reinforce this emotional and physical segregation -- how did the Zakais and Tarabins become such close friends?
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